Readit Newsstarkd commented on Lisa Su saved AMD – Now she wants Nvidia's AI crown forbes.com/sites/iainmart... · Posted by u/tim_sw
The trouble is that AMD just didn't take AI seriously. For a long time, their equivalent of CUDA was not only Linux only and a pain to use but was outright broken on all consumer cards - as in, they dropped official support for the only consumer cards it officially ran on, promptly broke it so that machine learning runs failed, and dismissed bug reports from the users who were left high and dry because their cards were no longer officially supported. The only way to use AMD for machine learning was to pay out much more than the price of NVidia's consumer cards for server-focused AMD cards that worked worse, were harder to use, and that AMD didn't support for long either. They just never had the small-scale desktop usage that lead to NVidia's cards being the choice for bigger machine learning once scaled up because it simply didn't work.
That would explain my Radeon Graphics card I never managed to get working properly. It arbitrarily froze. I was told that it did that for Linux and that it was guaranteed to work on Windows. But when I tried it on Windows, it did the exact same thing. They were unresponsive.
starkd commented on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund” cbsnews.com/news/mormon-w... · Posted by u/nabla9
No organization should be tax-exempt (not religions, not charities, not foundations), and no donations to such organizations should be tax exempt. Tax exemption takes money from the one democratic charity (our government) that supports vastly more than any other, increases undemocratic amounts of influence among the wealthy, and leads to financial shenanigans such as those we see here withe the LDS hoard. I've been in position to witness all of this via my parent's wealth distribution (almost entirely to charities, starting with 50% to LDS church).
The state is not the only means by which a society conducts charity. It needs to encourage charitable giving through various avenues.
starkd commented on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund” cbsnews.com/news/mormon-w... · Posted by u/nabla9
Tax exemption should be a non-issue. Churches shouldn't be for-profit businesses, they should be associations with members contributing to a common, partly charitable goal (although honestly it's also just a club). That's what they conceptually are, and that's how they should work.
They should be treated as charitable organisations at best, and then also held to those standards. Any church run as a business should not be considered a church at all.
(Disclaimer: I'm a member of a Dutch church, and I have no idea what our tax situation is.)
Exactly. Scientology is not a religion. Its barely a business dressed as a religion. The standard for tax exemption should be charitable non-profit.
starkd commented on Climate change may be making turbulence worse npr.org/2023/04/06/116699... · Posted by u/neom
anecdote
professor with agenda
some more anecdotes
no real evidence that the problem is increasing or that it will get bad enough to have any effect on air travel
seems like a great npr story, i do hope they raise my carbon tax
They did reference satellite data. However, I do not know to what extent satellite data can show turbulence. The article implied a total cause, but I suspect its a bit more complex. Not sure how you would tell if its more common. I remember people complaining about turbulence for as long as I can remember. Maybe people's expectations about flight safety are just higher now, because planes offer a better experience.
starkd commented on Climate change may be making turbulence worse npr.org/2023/04/06/116699... · Posted by u/neom
Where rationality left only emotions rule, and populists know damn well how to use people's fears and other negative emotions to to milk them for either money or power... don't expect solving this would be so trivial, its more on the evolution of mankind as whole scale, or at least massively improving education with strong focus on less intelligent part of population
Corporate marketing departments have been pretty adept at promoting their products on the backs of this science. They are far from unintelligent. Populists, for all their deficiencies, are fairly adept at eventually detecting marketing ploys and gimmicks.
starkd commented on Climate change may be making turbulence worse npr.org/2023/04/06/116699... · Posted by u/neom
I think the reason people aren’t on board with climate change is that the solutions presented are not appealing.
Plus the solutions are narrow in scope. For instance, we are led to believe that it will be solved if only we all buy electric cars. It might help for certain areas, but it is far from a complete solution. It comes off as a corporate grift.
Woohoo! I can now retire!